HMS Uganda (66)

Uganda underway
History
United Kingdom
Name	Uganda
Ordered	1939
Builder	Vickers-Armstrong, Newcastle upon Tyne
Laid down	20 July 1939
Launched	7 August 1941
Commissioned	3 January 1943
Identification	Pennant number: 66
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1943, Sicily 1943, Salerno 1943, Mediterranean 1943[1]
Fate	Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy on 21 October 1944
Canada
Name	Uganda
Acquired	21 October 1944
Commissioned	21 October 1944
Honours and awards	Okinawa 1945
Renamed	HMCS Quebec 14 January 1952
Namesake	Province of Quebec
Recommissioned	14 January 1952
Decommissioned	15 June 1956
Identification	Pennant number: C66
Motto	Nos canons parleront (Our cannons shall speak)[2]
Fate	Arrived at Osaka, Japan, on 6 February 1961 for scrapping
Badge	Or, a maple leaf vert charged with a fleur-de-lis of the first[2]
General characteristics
Class and type	Fiji-class light cruiser
Displacement	8,712 tons standard 11,024 tons full load
Length	169.3 m (555 ft 5 in)
Beam	18.9 m (62 ft 0 in)
Draught	5.3 m (17 ft 5 in)
Propulsion	4 x oil fired three-drum Admiralty-type boilers four-shaft geared turbines four screws 54,100 kW (72,500 shp)
Speed	33 kn (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Range	10,200 nmi (18,900 km; 11,700 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	730 (wartime) 650 (peacetime)
Sensors and processing systems	Type 281 air search Type 272 surface search Type 277 height finding Type 274 fire control (152 mm) Type 283 fire control (102 mm) Type 282 fire control (2 pdr)
Armament	3 × triple BL 6 in (152 mm) Mk XXIII guns 4 × twin QF Mk XVI 4 in (102 mm) guns 4 × quadruple Mk VII 2-pounder (40 mm) guns 10 × twin Mk II 20 mm/70 cal guns 2 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour	Belt 82.5–88.9 mm (3.25–3.50 in) Turrets 25.4–50.8 mm (1.00–2.00 in)
Aircraft carried	Two Supermarine Walrus aircraft, removed November 1943.

HMS Uganda was a Second World War-era Fiji-class light cruiser launched in 1941. She served in the Royal Navy during 1943 and 1944, including operations in the Mediterranean, and was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Uganda in October 1944. She served in the Pacific theatre in 1945 and was put into reserve in 1947. When she was reactivated for the Korean War in 1952 she was renamed HMCS Quebec. She was decommissioned for the last time in 1956 and scrapped in Japan in 1961.